He’s most known for his role in the 1977 miniseries “Roots,” where, at the age of 19, he played a fictional slave named Kunta Kinte. In 1986, he played helmsman Geordi La Forge in “Star ...
His other work includes Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Kunta Kinte in the critically acclaimed ABC miniseries Roots. The National Humanities Medal honors an individual or ...
who starred as the young Kunta Kinte in TV series Roots, was among those to receive the humanities medal, alongside director and writer Aaron Sorkin and a posthumous nod for chef and author ...
Filmmakers Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee and Ken Burns were among the recipients of National Medals of Arts, alongside singers Missy Elliott, Idina Menzel and Queen Latifah during a ceremony at the ...